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orographic rain
- Sinônimos
- relief rain
- Definição1
- Rain resulting when moist air is forced upward by a mountain range.
- Fonte1
- MARINE WEATHER glossary. Starpath School of Navigation. [S.l.], 2022. Disponível em: < https://starpath.com/cgi-bin/web_card/courses/glossary.pl?show_index=1&cat=Marine_Weather/>. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2022.
- Definição2
- Relief or orographic rain is formed when air is forced to cool when it rises over relief features in the landscape such as hills or mountains. As it rises it cools, condenses and forms rain.
- Fonte2
- Barcelona Field Studies Centre: Geography Fieldwork.com. Disponível em: < https://geographyfieldwork.com/ReliefRain.htm>. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2022
- Fonte3
- HALL, R. J.; CAMPBELL, R. D. Dictionary of aviation. Oxford: BSP, c1991. vi, 346 p.
- Fonte4
- Breidenthal, R.E.; Zagar, N. The critical slope angle for orographic rain. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2013, December, pages A13L-10. Disponível em:
- Nota adicional1
- Orographic refers to something of, pertaining to, or caused by mountains as in orographic clouds, orographic lift or orographic precipitation.
- Contexto
- Krishnamurti has shown that orographic rain depends on the slope of the windward terrain rather than just the total elevation gain.
- Subárea1
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Português
- chuva orográfica
- Imagem
Orographic rain or relief rain.
Source: Barcelona Field Studies Centre: Geography Fieldwork.com. Disponível em: < https://geographyfieldwork.com/ReliefRain.htm>. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2022.